Small Infinities, a play by Professor Alan Brody

About Professor Brody

Alan Brody was for many years a professor of Theater at MIT and served as Associate Provost for the Arts. His plays have won numerous awards.  

Invention for Fathers and Sons was the first winner of the annual Rosenthal Award at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 1989. It was subsequently produced at the American Jewish Theater in New York City.  

The Company of Angels was the recipient of the 1990 Eisner Award from the Streisand Center for Jewish Culture in Los Angeles. It had its world premiere at the New Repertory Theater in Massachusetts in the spring of 1993 and has been produced at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York, Theater Emory in Atlanta and the Janet Kinghorn Theater at Skidmore College.  

The Housewives of Mannheim had its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in 2009 before going on to the 59E59 Theaters in New York and a number of subsequent productions throughout the country. Operation Epsilon had its world premiere at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge in 2013. It was nominated for three Elliot Norton Awards and won an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best Play that same year.

Three of Professor Brody’s plays, Five Scenes From Life, Greytop in Love and One-on-One, were developed at the Missouri Repertory Theater. Greytop in Love was produced at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in March of 1998 starring Kim Hunter in one of her last performances. Medea’s Nurse was presented at the Riverside Stage Theater in Norwalk, Connecticut in September 1998. The dramatic oratorio, Reckoning Time: A Song of Walt Whitman,which he wrote in collaboration with composer and professor Peter Child, had its world premiere at Jordan Hall with the John Oliver Chorale in March of 1995.

Professor Brody is also the author of three novels, Coming To (1973), Hey Lenny, Hey Jack (1975) and I Want to Be There When it Happens.

Background courtesy of alanbrodyworks.com